[sakai2-tcc] draft statement on end of support for Oracle 9

[Steve Swinsburg]

+1

On 15/07/2011, at 9:10 AM, Anthony Whyte wrote:

> +1 
> 
> This says it all:
> 
>> 
>> > I will clarify that "the end of formal support" means "no longer 
>> > assuring that future versions work on it by QA testing, etc."
> 
> 
> On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
> 
>> As of 2 weeks ago umich is on 11g and we won't even have 10g available much longer as that is also EOL, so I'm + 1 (g).
>> 
>> On Jul 14, 2011 6:21 PM, "Seth Theriault" <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:
>> > Seth Theriault wrote:
>> > 
>> >> As discussed in Los Angeles, we should consider officially
>> >> dropping support for Oracle 9 and lower as of Sakai 2.8.1 (and
>> >> 2.7.2).
>> >>
>> >> Some reasons for this include:
>> >>
>> >> - Oracle 9 has been EOL'd for at least a year.
>> >> - In at least one case, our conversion scripts use SQL directives that are only available in Oracle 10 and later
>> >> - Institutions supporting QA servers no longer use Oracle 9
>> >>
>> >> I propose the following statement be adopted:
>> >>
>> >> "The Sakai CLE Technical Coordination Committee announces the end
>> >> of formal support for Oracle 9.2 and earlier, starting with the
>> >> release of the upcoming 2.8.1 and 2.7.2 maintenance releases.
>> >>
>> >> Oracle 9.2 reached the end of its formal "Extend Support"
>> >> coverage in July 2010. In addition, many institutions in the
>> >> Sakai community are using more recent versions of Oracle,
>> >> including all of those hosting Sakai QA servers for community
>> >> use. Finally, some of the current Oracle conversion scripts use
>> >> features that are only available in later versions."
>> >>
>> >> Let's discuss this for a week or so. We probably have to confirm
>> >> some of the above, but you get the geenral idea.
>> > 
>> > Well, it's been a week and no one had ventured an opinion or 
>> > thought. Anyone have objections to this somewhat 
>> > non-controversial proposal?
>> > 
>> > I will clarify that "the end of formal support" means "no longer 
>> > assuring that future versions work on it by QA testing, etc."
>> > 
>> > Seth
>> > 
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